| Transnational Yearnings: Tourism, Migration, and the Diasporic City Contributor(s): Burman, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774817364 ISBN-13: 9780774817363 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Travel | Caribbean & West Indies |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2011500261 |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The global pathways that connect cities and nations are congested with people, money, and cultural transmissions. Transnational Yearnings maps a new way to look at modern contact zones and the personal interconnections that inform them by tracing circuits of migration and leisure travel between postcolonial Jamaica and Toronto, a city that has become for Jamaican Canadians both a place of promise and cultural vitality and a site of criminalization and exclusion through deportation. Innovative and provocative, this book is about the desires, intimacies, and power relations that at once inform and reflect transnational migration and the diasporization of urban space. |
